Drier.



No. 643,149. Patened Feb. I3, 1900.

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JAMES MCCUSKER, OF RYAN, IOW'A.

DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,149, dated February 13, 1900. Application iled August 28, 1899. Serial No. 728,731. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LYJAMES MCCUsKnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ryan,

in the county of Delaware and State of Iowa, i

have invented -a new and useful Drier, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in driers, and particularlyto that subclass designated seed-corn safes.

One object of the invention is to provide a receptacle through which the air may circulate freely and in which is located an openwork wire frame, the members or bars of which may be relatively adjusted to accommodate various materials-that is to say, materials of varyingbulk-and to permit the use of the safe as a clothes-cupboard, ih which clothes or other objects may be hung.

Certain other and subordinate objects Will hereinafter more fully appear as the necessity for their accomplishment is developed in the succeeding description.

Referring to the draWings,Figure lis a front elevation of my safe, partlyin section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my safe with parts broken away for the sake of clearness of illus` tration. Fig. 3 is a top plan View with the cover-frame removed, the Wire bottom Wall being omitted. Fig. Lisa horizontal sectional View on the line t 4 of Fig. 2, showing the Wire bottom Wall removed. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the wire frame detached; and Fig. Gis a fragmentary perspective View of the intermediate top and bottom Wires, portions of the shelf-wires, and the lower ends of one set of stay-wires.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, l indicates the skeleton supporting-frame of my safe, comprising rectangular top and bottom frames 2 and 3, connected by corner posts or standards 4E. The ends of the frame are additionally braced by the centrally-located partition-posts 5, connected at the top and .bottom by partition-rails 6 and 7, bracing and constituting part of the top and bottom frames, respectively.

8 and 9 indicatestay-rod-supporting beams extending across the top and bottom frames from the opposite sides of the rails 6 and 7, respectively,to the front and rear of the frame, and the partition-posts 5, located at the ends of the safe, are braced by horizontal frametop and bottom frames extend from the partition-posts, to each of which they are attached.

1l and 12 indicate, respectively, rearand front door-jamb beads extending between the top and bottom frames at the middle of the front and'rear of the safe and against which abut the front edges of front and rear doors 13 and 14, hinged, as indicated at l5, at the corner-posts of the frame and composed, respectively, of rectangular frames, having transverse central braces or bars 16 andwirenetting panels 17.

18 and 19 indicate the top and bottom walls of the safe, which are formed from sheets of wire netting or fabric and secured in place by beads 2() and 21, the former of which constitutes the cover-frame of the safe.

22 22 indicate screen-strips surrounding the edges of the opposite ends of the safe and to which screen-walls 23 are secured by beads 24. In this manner the several side, front, rear, top, and bottom walls of the safe; are

constructed of wire screening,'and air is permitted to circulate freely through the receptacle to effect the drying of material therein.

I shall now proceed to a description of a wire frame whichl I have provided upon the interior of the safe, as described, and which is capable of rearrangement or adjustment to accommodate seed-corn or other farm produce, or clothes and the like.

25 25, &c., indicate a series of equidistant horizontal end wires or rails extendingacross the ends of the safe and provided with inturned extremities or prongs 26, which when driven into the end posts secure the rails in place. The-se rails are designed for the reception of a series of horizontally-adj ustable vertical shelf-frames 27 27, &c., composed of horizontal wires or members 28 of somewhat smaller gage than the end Wires or rails 25 and slidably mounted thereon by terminal eyelets 29. Y The shelf-wires 28 ofeach shelfframe are located in vertical alinement and bars 10, which at several points between the are tied or connected by vertical tie-wires or IOC with or comprises,preferably, though not necessarily, two stays, equidistant from each other and from4 the ends of the safe, connected alternately by oppositely-disposed eyelets 3l to the-several shelf-wires of the frame and having their lower ends looped or provided with eyelets 32 slidably mounted upon bottom rails 33, extending along the upper sides of the frame-bars 9 and supported by screweyes 34, which serve to support the rails at proper distances from the frame to permit of the unrestricted movement of the eyelets 32. Any suitable means for slidably supporting the upper ends of the stays may be employed; but I prefer to form oppositely-disposed supporting-hooks 35 at their upper eX- tremities for the reception of the frame-bars 8, over which they pass and along which they may be adj usted when it is desired to rearrange the shelf-frames to accommodate different materials within'the safe.

The drawings illustrate in full lines the greatest possible separation of the shelf-l frames-that is, to retain their equidistant relationand in Fig. 4 is shown in dotted lines the congestion of these shelf-frames against the opposite sides of the partition-posts 5, which would perhaps be the most desirable position for these frames when it is desired to employ the drier for use in connection with clothing suspended upon hooks 36, carried by the shelf-wires, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l, or by any other suitable support upon the interior of the safe.

While the present embodiment of my invention appears at this time to be preferable, I do not desire to limit myself to the structural details defined, but reserve the right to change, modify, or vary them at will within the scope of the protection prayed.

Vhat I claim is- 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a supporting frame or casing, and the vertically-disposed shelf-frames composed of horizontal members slidingly connected at their ends with the supporting- -frame and adapted to be moved inward and outward and arranged in vertical series, and means for connecting the members of each Series, whereby the same will move in unison, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a supporting frame or casing, horizontal end rails arranged within the same, and the vertical shelf-frames each composed of a series of horizontal members slidingly mounted on the end rails, and vertical connecting members, whereby the horizontal members of each frame are caused to move inward and outward in unison, substantially as described.

3. A drier havingits walls formed by wirenetting, vertical series of horizontal end rails within the drier, and a plurality of shelfframes composed of intersecting connected wires, certain of which are formed with eyelets surrounding and movable upon the end rails, substantially as specified.

4. The combination with a drier, of shelfframes therein comprising vertically-ahmed series of horizontal wires connected by vertical stays, and means for adjustably supporting the opposite ends of the shelf wires and stays, substantially as specied. l

5. A wire supporting-frame for driers comprising two vertical series of horizontal end rails provided with inturned terminal prongs, a horizontal series of shelf-frames each of which iscomposed of a vertical series of horizontal shelfwires having terminal eyelets passing around the end rails, a pair of vertical stays provided respectively with oppositely-disposed eyelets for the reception of the shelf-wires with an eyelet at its lower extremity and a hook at its upper extremity, and horizontal bottom rails for the reception of the terminal eyelets of the stays, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence ot' two witnesses.

'J AMES MCCUSKER.

Witnesses: l

JNO. P. STRIEGEL, J. M. ZwIsLER. 

